BOILING POINT STANDING UP BULLIES, BUT BEFORE FISTS FLU, FLEW, SHE WARNED THE SCHOOL HER SON MIGHT SNAP. JENNIFER BAUER JOINS US WITH THE STORY. Reporter: THIS MOTHER HAD AN IDEA THAT HER SON WITH GOING TO SNAP BECAUSE HE COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE. A STUDENT RECORDED THIS FIGHT INSIDE A JUNIOR HIGH LOCKER ROOM. TRACY GOMEZ SAYS THIS IS THE RESULT OF HER SON BEING BULLIED. THAT HER 12-YEAR-OLD FINALLY REACHED THE END OF HIS ROPE AND CONFRONTED THE STUDENT WHAT HAD BEEN PICKING ON HIM. HER SON IS THE SHORTER ONE IN BLUE. I SAID YOU NEED TO FIGHT BACK. YOU NEED TO PROTECT YOURSELF ANY WAY YOU CAN. Reporter: SHE SAYS IT ALL STARTED LAST YEAR. THE BOYS ATTEND DEEP WATER JUNIOR HIGH IN PASADENA. HE COMES HOME CRYING. HE COMES HOME WITH BRUISES, GASHES IN HIS HEAD. HE'S GOT SCRAPE MARKS OFF HIS BACK WHERE THEY PUSHED HIM ACROSS THE BLEACHERS. Reporter: IT GOT SO BAD, GOMEZ NOTICED CHANGES IN HER SON. HE WAS TELLING ME HE WAS SCARED TO COME TO SCHOOL, HE WAS SCARED TO COME BECAUSE HE KNEW THAT THESE KIDS WERE GOING TO BE BULLYING ON HIM. Reporter: GOMEZ IS SAD IT CAME TO THIS. TODAY SHE HAD A MEETING WITH THE PRINCIPAL AND THE OTHER BOY'S MOM. NOW SHE'S HOPEFUL THE BULLYING WILL STOP. I DON'T BELIEVE THAT IT SHOULD HAVE GOT TO THIS POINT WHERE A CHILD GETS FED UP OF BEING BULLIED AND THEY HAVE TO TAKE IT INTO THEIR OWN HANDS. Reporter: NOW THIS MOM TELLS US SHE DID COMPLAIN ABOUT THE BULLYING TO TEACHERS, COACHES AND OTHER STAFF MEMBERS, BUT A DEER PARK I.S.D. SPOKESPERSON TELLS US THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THE PRINCIPAL AT THAT SCHOOL HAD HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT IT. THE SPOKESPERSON TELLS US THE DISTRICT TAKES ALLEGATIONS OF BULLYING VERY SERIOUSLY AND THAT IT IS ISSUE HAS BEEN HANDLED. WE'RE LIVE TONIGHT, JENNIFER BAUER, KPRC LOCAL 2. YOU KNOW IT'S REALLY A TOUGH SITUATION FOR THE KID BEING BULLIED. ANY RETALIATION PUTS THEM IN JUST AS MUCH TROUBLE AS THE KID WHO INITIATES THE BULLYING. SO LET'S ELABORATE. TALK ABOUT SOME EARLY WARNING SIGNS AND REALLY WHAT WE SHOULD BE TELLING OUR KIDS TO DO. Reporter: DOMINIQUE, THIS MOM TELLS US THAT THESE PROBLEMS STARTED LAST YEAR, THEY CONTINUED OVER THE SUMMER AND THEN THEY CARRIED INTO THIS YEAR. SHE SAYS HER SON WAS REAL QUIET, HIS GRADES STARTED SLIPPING, HE DIDN'T WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL. HE ULTIMATELY CAME CLEAN AND SAID THAT HE WAS HAVING A PROBLEM WITH SOME KIDS AT SCHOOL PICKING ON HIM, BUT EXPERTS SAY NOT ALL KIDS ARE GOING TO TELL THEIR PARENTS THE TRUTH AND THEY REALLY SUGGEST SORT OF KEEPING THE DIALOGUE OPEN, AND IF YOU SUSPECT SOMETHING'S JUST NOT RIGHT, TO KEEP PRODDING AND ASKING QUESTIONS UNTIL YOU CAN FIND OUT WHAT THE PROBLEM IS.

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Two students were caught exchanging punches inside a junior high school locker room; the incident was recorded on a cell phone camera by another student.

"I told Michael 'you need to fight back, you need to protect yourself anyway you can,'" said Tracy Gomez, one of the boys' mothers.

Gomez said the trouble began last year. The boys attend Deep Water Junior High School in Pasadena. She said her son was being picked on, it continued through the summer and started up again this year.

"He was telling me he was scared to come to school. He was scared to come because he knew these kids would be bullying him," Gomez said.

She told Local 2 her son had several pair of glasses broken and would often come home with bruises and scrapes.

"They've broken his glasses and bloodied his nose," she said.

At the end of his rope, Gomez said her son got fed up and took matters into his own hands and confronted one of the bullies in the locker room during school.

"I don't believe it should have got to this point where a child gets fed up with being bullied and has to take it into their own hands," said Gomez.

Gomez said she had reported the problems to teachers, coaches and other staff members but a Deer Park Independent School District spokesperson told Local 2 this was the first time the school's principal had heard about it.

The spokesperson said the district takes allegations of bullying very seriously and it isn't tolerated. The issue was resolved and both students were disciplined for the fight.

Gomez had a meeting at the school with the principal and the other student's mother, she is hopeful the bullying will now stop.

"I don't see why it took so long to do anything. I hope after today it's resolved," Gomez said.

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